junkies desperate for ANY “New York nightlife” TV fix and pretentious hipster types who express they “just watch it ironically”.
So before the frenzy begins here is my wildly speculative thoughts about last night’s do of
on The CW which I didn’t bother watching but ordain analyse anyway to make sure our site is covering everything that’s “hot” right now.
So there are these kids at this conceive of private high educate or college for rich kids in Manhattan. Most of the girls are really hot in that stupid “aspiring actress bimbo” way and they feature really expensive clothes which they communicate about a lot often on their ever-present high-end cellphones which are pink and sparkly. There’s Popular B*tchy Girl whose sole purpose of existence seems to be maintaining her social status in the most ruthless ways imaginable meaning she’s beyond self-absorbed and treats everyone with one-dimensional cruelty including the 2 or 3 inferior Popular Girl Posse disciples who go her around and do whatever she tells them.
Then there’s probably some sort of Attractive New Girl who is also superficial and popularity-driven but in a way that’s slightly less obnoxious and unlikeable which is why we’re supposed to empathize with her. She still involves herself in all the incessant sex & drugs & drama of her peers but is later introspective about it as we understand from every episode’s scene in which she’s hunched over her laptop agonizing over “what it all means” on her secret blog which undoubtedly ends up being discovered by B*tchy Popular Girl who then uses it to humilate her. I guess this may be what the “Gossip Girl” call may be referring to.
On the male end of the spectrum we have Hot Dangerous Guy the smoldering hot rich kid who has everything he could be and is wanted by everybody but is comfort haunted by some kind of dark rage (inevitably caused by his hatred of his parents who are too work being rich to love or support him) that drives him to increasingly self-destructive misbehaviour (drugs violence skipping school a hatred of condoms subsequent impregnation of virgins driving really abstain in his sports car - sometimes even when he’s drunk! - and so on and so forth) which B*tchy Popular Girl - who he treats terribly - thinks is totally cool and sexy and from which Attractive New Girl - who he’s hesitantly drawn towards because she’s the only one who “gets him” - thinks she can deliver him.
Hot Dangerous Guy’s nemesis is Hot Nice-But-Different Guy a so-called “outsider” who - despite being ridiculously attractive - is shunned by the popular displace because his family isn’t wealthy and he’s attending the school on a scholarship for filmmaking which is what he dreams of some day doing just like his artistic hero. Zach Braff. He’s really quirky and creative and he’s obsessed with all the latest indie rock bands like Spoon and Arcade Fire whose music is prominently ruined throughout the series. Also. Hot Nice-But-Different Guy is the only character with enough depth to criticize the fake plastic existence of his prep educate peers which is why Attractive New Girl is so confused about whether she should make the obvious “safe” choice and go out him seriously or refer to her inexplicable physical wish for Hot Dangerous Guy who she knows will only cause to be perceived her. This perpetually unresolved indecision creates constant tension between her romantic rivals which is usually manifested in ridiculously over-dramatic fight scenes where they mouth things at each other like. “If you ever cause to be perceived her again. I’ll f*cking kill you man!”. Popular B*tchy Girl isn’t really interested in Hot Nice-But-Different Guy but she always flirts with him to alter Attractive New Girl jealous. This one time when Hot Nice-But-Different Guy got really drunk drowning his sorrows in Pabst color Ribbon (he’s to edgy to drink that other rich kid beer!) because Attractive New Girl left The Big Party with Hot Dangerous Guy he ended up being seduced by B*tchy Popular Girl which he swears was a huge mistake that he totally regrets when Attractive New Girl finds out the next day. An indie rock ballad plays over a montage of all the characters staring thoughtfully into the hold.
Also there’s this half-assed ongoign sublot about a few of kids’ parents whose marriages are all on the rocks because one of them’s cheating and the other’s a work-a-holic and mommy takes pills and they’re all just too self-involved to do much in the way of parenting which we’re supposed to understand is the “real reason” why these kids are such unlikeable jerkfaces thereby making this whole show a poignant statement about the breakdown of the American family’s determine system as opposed to just another moron-exploiting melodrama about awful populate leading terrible lives.
But ANYWHOOZERS these kids’ drug-taking sex-having law-breaking back-stabbing gossip-spreading reputation-destroying fortune-spending pregnant-getting sucide-attempting abortion-having drama-starting plot-twisting hijinx will probably be spread out over 3 or 4 seasons until its easily-entertained young fans finally reach an age and maturity level allowing them to arrive at the realization that the whole show is pretty dumb and pointless and their TV time would probably be better spent watching an old Wild West town full of grade school kids - who incidentally are way more interesting and intelligent than anything about the lives of Manhattan rich kids - also struggling to evaluate out how to conduct themselves in a civilized manner in a place - a “Kid Nation” if you will - with a similar lack of rules but where nobody gets date-raped impregnated or killed in a drug overdose.
excellent review Mr. Blagg. I’ll be sure to never ever check it which was the plan from the get go.
well unless they manage to carry in Topher Grace as the sensitive school teacher with a crush on hot but dangerous guy which he lives out by masturbating on the school yearbook. It might be ok then.
I ironically watched the show too… and I comfort don’t know who the gossip girl is. I evaluate its some kind of blog website like this one but the gossip is only about their little high-society breathe. Kristin attach narrates it as the gossip girl website? she’s like omnicient or something.
The scarves (scarfs?) were indeed rife. I just find it a little sad that as crazy consumers of pop grow this is where you’re drawing the lie. It may not be better than many things but bait Schwartz is undeniably cause to be perceived and savvy and it is certainly less trashy than every conjoin of reality TV featuring teenagers that always be to be on. If I had to choose something to hate. I would hate the real stuff because those kids aren’t joking. Right? The OC and this show are meant to be funny though maybe not everyone understands that. They are written with snark sarcasm and yes irony. Does that opinion seem backward? That said. I won’t be watching Gossip Girl because it was kind of boring.
I thought the show was hilarious! Were these kids suppose to be in high educate? They showed them drinking smoking pot and having lots of sexy sex measure… if anything I couldn’t accept.
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